Sonographic appearance of an advanced invasive mole and associated metastatic thrombus in the inferior vena cava |
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| Authors: | Maria Okumura MD Koji Fushida MD Rossana Pulcineli Vieira Francisco MD Regina Schultz MD Marcelo Zugaib PhD |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Obstetrics, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil;2. Division of Pathology, Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de S?o Paulo, S?o Paulo, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | We present a case of an advanced invasive mole with a metastatic thrombus in the inferior vena cava in which sonography clearly showed vesicles in the myometrium, ovaries, and metastatic thrombus leading to a diagnosis of invasive mole rather than choriocarcinoma. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2013. |
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| Keywords: | invasive mole gestational trophoblastic disease metastatic thrombus ultrasound |
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